Trekking in Colombia
Highlights
Bogota | Zipaquira Salt Cathedral | Cerro Monserrate | Paloquemao market | Tour of La Candelaria led by a historian | Gold Museum | Usaquen Flea Market | Pereira coffee tour | Trekking in the Cocora Valley Reserve | Volcano trekking | Lake Otun | Santa Marta and the Caribbean coast | Tayrona National Park | Pueblito Chairama ruins |Travel Team
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Before any trek we first reduce the amount of waste that is taken up to the mountains by storing as much food as possible in plastic containers, removing wrapping. Clients are all given a bag where they can pick up any rubbish that they may find on trail. Our policy is to leave any campsite and trail cleaner than when we find it and this has been very popular among our guests.
The Impacts of this Trip
Our supply chain during any given tour is based around the local community. During this trip we use local 'fincas' in the páramo for services that range from mule porterage, guiding, food and working within our trek team itself (our trek team are all from towns local to the national park). We try and break down the services for each day to see where the possibilities are to source them locally. We think that this is the best way to ensure that as much of the income from the trek stays with the local community as possible. In terms of recommending other services that aren't necessarily on our tour, we do that all of the time, we offer free consultation to just about anyone who needs it and we always recommend those who share our values as a company, which basically comes down to doing good work for the community, for the culture, heritage and for the environment through tourism. By working with like minded people we know that are efforts on tour and recommendations overall will reach that much farther.
We care greatly for a school that we camp by during our trek in Los Nevados so therefore before any clients come to Colombia we always ask them to bring any items, such as school utilities (pens, notebooks, books, dictionaries etc) that could be of use for the 7 or so school kids who use this highland school - it's the only difficult-access school in the whole of Risaralda department (state). Additionally, we donate a per-client sum of money to the school for it to be spent on whatever they need. The teacher, who has worked there for over 10 years is a personal friend who has fought long and hard for the community, so we know that the donations are in good hands.


Before any trek we first reduce the amount of waste that is taken up to the mountains by storing as much food as possible in plastic containers, removing wrapping. Clients are all given a bag where they can pick up any rubbish that they may find on trail. Our policy is to leave any campsite and trail cleaner than when we find it and this has been very popular among our guests.

The Impacts of this Trip
Our supply chain during any given tour is based around the local community. During this trip we use local 'fincas' in the páramo for services that range from mule porterage, guiding, food and working within our trek team itself (our trek team are all from towns local to the national park). We try and break down the services for each day to see where the possibilities are to source them locally. We think that this is the best way to ensure that as much of the income from the trek stays with the local community as possible. In terms of recommending other services that aren't necessarily on our tour, we do that all of the time, we offer free consultation to just about anyone who needs it and we always recommend those who share our values as a company, which basically comes down to doing good work for the community, for the culture, heritage and for the environment through tourism. By working with like minded people we know that are efforts on tour and recommendations overall will reach that much farther.
We care greatly for a school that we camp by during our trek in Los Nevados so therefore before any clients come to Colombia we always ask them to bring any items, such as school utilities (pens, notebooks, books, dictionaries etc) that could be of use for the 7 or so school kids who use this highland school - it's the only difficult-access school in the whole of Risaralda department (state). Additionally, we donate a per-client sum of money to the school for it to be spent on whatever they need. The teacher, who has worked there for over 10 years is a personal friend who has fought long and hard for the community, so we know that the donations are in good hands.

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